One actor, Christopher Tierney, suffered a fractured skull, a fractured shoulder blade, four broken ribs and three broken vertebrae during a fall onto the stage.Back in 2010, Bono and The Edge of U2 fame wrote a musical for director Julie Taymor based on the Marvel Comics web-slinging hero called "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark". It was all laughs on Thursday but during the production's inauspicious beginning in the fall of 2010, "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" was a scary place indeed. The other characters were Kraven the Hunter, Swarm and Carnage.Ĭuccioli joked that the reason Lizard and Electro were missing was the former had poor cellphone service in the sewer, and that the latter was probably "charging his Prius somewhere."Īsked what he was going to wear this Halloween, Cuccioli joked, "I'm going to go as a human." The advice was somewhat comical coming from a show that had a rocky start safety-wise before it settled down to become one of Broadway's top earners and earning two Tony Award nominations.įour of the show's "Sinister Six" milled about in full costume - ones that would make any trick-or-treater green with envy - including an actor playing the very unsafe-looking Swiss Miss, complete with rotating blades.
"But if there's one thing we can agree on, it's public safety, especially during Halloween." Unfortunately many of those played out in the public eye," said Cuccioli during the press conference outside the Foxwoods Theatre with Spider-Man. Reeve Carney, who plays the hero in the hit musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" and Robert Cuccioli, who currently plays the Green Goblin, put aside their substantial comic book differences Thursday - and apparently any sense of irony - to team up and offer tips about keeping kids safe this Halloween.įlanked by four costumed villains from the show and representatives from the city's fire and police departments, the actors reminded parents to examine all Halloween candy and never eat any unwrapped treats, ensure children wear flame-retardant costumes and masks that never impeded their ability to see and hear, and avoid strangers or unfamiliar houses. NEW YORK (AP) - Look who's giving safety advice: None other than Broadway's one-time injury-happy Spider-Man.